Hak5 1104 – IRC Bouncers and How to protect Windows from SAM attacks

This time on the show, maintaining persistence and privacy on IRC with your very own bouncer - Darren explains. Then setting up simple 2-factor authentication in Windows. Plus why VIM is better than VI, or was that Emacs? All that and much more this time on Hak5!

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I wanted to point out a possible fail-safe to losing your flash drive. I successfully copied the key file onto another drive. However, to make this work it will also need to be configured as the “A” drive also when plugged in, which means you will need to remove the first drive to configure the backup drive to be recognized as “A”. I used an SD card with a write block to further protect the file from being accidentally destroyed.